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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI T. SHELTON, OF OAKLAND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

AX AND BRUSH-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 260,423, dated July 4, 1882.

Application filed November 21,1881. (NomodeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEVI T sflELToN, of

' Oakland, in the county of Mason, Washington ping-ax and the common brush-hook. Swamping is a term used by loggers to designate the cutting of saplings and brush from roads leading from the main logging-road to the places Where trees have been fellul and sawed up into saw-logs and the manner of swamping is byeutting saplings with a common chopping-ax and the smaller brush with a common brush-hook, each tool being either separate from the other or combined in one implement. In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, and Fig. 2 perspective view, of my improved swamping-ax and brush-h0olr.

is the blade of the brush-hook.

a represents the bit or blade of the ax. b c is the arteye, and d is a groove formed in the back of the brush-hook, and running longitudinally thereof from the rear end to the front curved portion. The handle is inserted within this groove 01 and eye 0, and is held securely in place by a strap or band of iron or other suitable material, 6, at the upper or inner end of the brush-hook, said band or strap being rigidly secured to the brush-hook by bolts or rivetsf. This band or strap 6 will securely hold the handle within the groove and prevent said handle from springing and breaking the eye of the ax.

What I claim as my invention is A combined swamping-ax and brush-hook consistingof the ax a brush-hook I), having longitudinal groove d, and the handle-retaining strap or band e,-substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LEVI T. sHELToN. Witnesses:

N. S. PORTER, G. G. ISRAEL. 

